Category: South Asia
India – 27th Kochi International Book Festival underway. 8th Kochi Literature Festival set for 4th-8th. 100,000 visitors expected
India remains, for TNPS, the most exciting publishing prospect on the planet.
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India’s Amdavad Book Fair morphs into the Ahmedabad International Book Festival
The choice of name, styling itself as a book festival rather than an international book fair suggests a pragmatic approach towards the event’s future, with focus on readers over rights and the industry’s needs.
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All India Gandhi Library project digitises 12,000 historical documents and recordings
In a country of 800 million internet users, getting historical documents digitised and online is essential not just for posterity by preserving valuable historical texts, but for the future of the country.
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India – Tamil children’s books to be translated to other Indian languages
India is at just 52% internet penetration, meaning around 630 million Indians have not yet begun using the internet. But that’s to miss the exciting point that anywhere between 750 million to 800 million Indians are already online.
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India – “An eye-opening and stimulating start to the year.”
Congratulations to the CIBF organisers on keeping the online presence up to date throughout each day, for the benefit of those unlucky enough not to be there in person.
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India Briefing – Kolkata Int. Book Fair expands small-publisher access
Last year the fair pulled in 2.6 million visitors that spent the USD equivalent of $4 million.
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India Briefing – Vijayawada Book Festival concludes
500,000 visitors spent $600,000 at Vijayawada last year.
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India Briefing – Historical novels and manga a huge hit at Chennai Book Fair
“We were not even aware of manga until last year, when many people came requesting them. Now about 85% of our sales are in manga.”
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8 million people will spend $10 million on books at India’s incredible book fairs Jan-Mar
The thing with India is, it’s a big country with over a billion people, which means big book fairs can be happening at the same time. And I do mean big.
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Bangladesh’s New Years Day textbook give-away
One of the most remarkable events in global publishing One of the most remarkable events in global...
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India – the Assam Guwahati Book Fair is underway, and will run through until January 9 2024
The global markets do not care about our western publishing calendar. It’s business as usual...
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Bangladesh – 7th Non-Fiction Book Fair ends 2023
But something the western publishing industry has done in the past couple of decades is to make an...
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